Originally Posted by
Mojo31
I saw a film last night of a guy catching an 8’ plus catfish that weighed 230 pounds. When I lived in IL, the harbor master at our sailing club fished for catfish at the dam. He caught stuff that was too big to bring on the boat so he just drug them behind his boat, and then pull them up on the shore to clean. He caught 5 footers pretty regularly.
I came across a video of a guy fishin' monster northerns, with a lure that looks like a duckling, last night. These were the kinds of beasts that made young me worry about digits, limbs, and pounds of flesh -